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faken

faken verb: to make fake; to fake.

Verb

faken (third-person singular simple present fakens, present participle fakening, simple past and past participle fakened)

  1. (nonstandard, rare, transitive) To make fake; to fake.
    • Partnered peace presumpted
      Freedom's face foully fakened
      Silent soulless slumbering
      The demon dragon has awakened!2015, Lisa M. Doyle, For Those I'll Leave Behind
    • Defiance On other people or their thinking. On religious tomes or a long awaited spiritual awakening. Fakening. Over Reliance […]2017, Armin Mitchell, BattleRhymes, volume 2

Forms of faken

third-person singular presentfakens
present participlefakening
past participlefakened
pastfakened

Origin of faken

From fake + -en.

Questions about faken

What does faken mean?
Faken means to make fake; to fake.
What part of speech is faken?
Faken is a verb.
What is the past tense of faken?
The past tense of faken is fakened.

Words near faken in the dictionary

  1. fakement
  2. fakements
  3. fakemoder
  4. fakemoders
  5. Fakemon
  6. faken
  7. fakened
  8. fakeness
  9. Fakenham
  10. fakeout
  11. fakeouts

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